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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
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On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> > My feeling is that we should go with LP-64...

Yes, this is what we use on NetBSD/alpha.

> This sounds like a good a priori approach, though it will cause
> problems where people assume sizeof (int) == sizeof (void *).

You bet. You get used to fixing those after a while. Just like you
get used to fixing alignment problems. :-)

cjs

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